Sylhet

Case filed over Ananta murder

Case filed accusing four anonymous assailants over brutal killing of writer and blogger Ananta Bijoy. No one arrested until now.
13 May 2015

Killing of blogger Ananta blow to free speech: HRW

The killing of secular blogger Ananta Bijoy Das is part of an alarming trend of violent intolerance toward freedom of religion and speech in Bangladesh, Human Rights Watch says.
13 May 2015

UK, EU condemn blogger Ananta murder

United Kingdom and European Union have strongly condemned the brutal murder of Ananta Bijoy Das, blogger and organiser of local Gonojagoron Mancha in Sylhet.
12 May 2015

Gonojagaran Mancha calls 6-hr hartal in Sylhet

Gonojagaran Mancha calls a six-hour hartal in Sylhet division tomorrow, protesting the murder of blogger Ananta Bijoy Das.
12 May 2015

Storm halts Syl-Dhaka-Ctg rail link for 7hrs

Train services of Sylhet with Dhaka and Chittagong resume after seven hours as at least 35 trees fell on railway tracks during a nor’wester in Moulvibazar.
22 April 2015

35 SUST teachers resign from administrative posts

Thirty-five teachers of Shahjajlal University of Science and Technology (SUST), Sylhet resign from a total of 43 administrative posts.
20 April 2015

3 of a family burnt in Sylhet septic tank fire

A woman and her two children suffered burns in a fire that broke out from the toxic gas of a septic tank of their house in Sylhet cit
4 April 2015

Abducted boy’s body found at Sylhet cop’s house

The body of a kidnapped boy is recovered from a police constable’s house in Sylhet city
15 March 2015

Detectives raid Farabi’s Sylhet house

DB conducts a drive in the Sylhet residence of Shafiur Rahman Farabi, prime suspect in the blogger-writer Avijit Roy killing.
8 March 2015

3 found dead in Sylhet

Three people, including a teenage girl, have been found dead in different parts of Sylhet district
6 March 2015

Derailment halts Dhaka-Ctg-Sylhet train service

Rail communication of Dhaka with Chittagong and Sylhet has been disrupted following a train derailment in Brahmanbaria.
5 March 2015

Dhaka-Sylhet train service resumes after 4hrs

Rail communications between Sylhet and Dhaka resumes after 4hours of disruption following derailment of freight train carrying oil in Bahubal upazila of Habiganj
2 March 2015